Song
A song is taught to many elementary school children across the state, entitled the Maine County Song, to aid in memorizing the names of the state's 16 counties. It is sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle.
- Sixteen counties has our state
- Cumberland and Franklin
- Piscataquis and Kennebec
- Oxford, Androscoggin
- Waldo, Washington, and York
- Lincoln, Knox, and Hancock
- Sagadahoc and Somerset
- Aroostook and Penobscot
An alternate version as put forth by the Maine Secretary of State's Kids' Page:
- The sixteen counties in our state
- Are Cumberland and Franklin
- Piscataquis and Somerset
- Aroostook, Androscoggin
- Sagadahoc and Kennebec
- Lincoln, Knox and Hancock
- Waldo, Washington and York
- Oxford and Penobscot
However the traditional version is:
- Sixteen counties in our state
- are Cumberland and Franklin
- Waldo York Piscataquis
- Oxford and Androscoggin
- Washington and Somerset
- Lincoln Knox and Hancock
- Kennebec Sagadahoc
- Aroostook and Penobscot
Read more about this topic: List Of Counties In Maine
Famous quotes containing the word song:
“The palsy plagues my pulses”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)
“There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.”
—Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.”
—Bible: Hebrew Song of Solomon 8:6.